because knowledge. that's why.

09/01/13

today I learned: thunderstorms create antimatter (as do bananas). also, men’s shirt buttons are on the right and women’s are on the left because typically men dressed themselves whereas women were dressed by servants (who could more easily button from the right. next, hazrat muhammad used to buy slaves just so he could set them free. finally, a tortoise given to the royal family by captain cook in 1777 died in 1965. woah. bonus (cause I wanna): tom waits always refused to give the rights for his songs in ads and successfully sued many companies who hired impersonators to sing similar songs in order to bypass his content.